08. March 2021

Birth is a natural and beautiful process that can be likened to a dance between mom and baby. The geography of mom’s anatomy pairs perfectly with baby’s primitive reflexes, triggering these reflexes in an ideally choreographed ensemble and assisting in moving baby through the birth canal. Now imagine a dance partner that is constantly stepping on your toes. Not as beautiful a picture, is it? Mom’s body and spine go through a significant amount of change throughout pregnancy. The pressure...

01. March 2021

Torticollis is a condition in which one’s head tilts to one side while rotating to the other. This is caused by the tightening of a muscle called the sternocleidomastoid (whoa, say that ten times fast). This looks like a pretty wild word, so let’s break it down. The first part, sterno, refers to the sternum or breastbone. The second part, cleido, refers to the clavicle. The third part, mastoid, is the bony process of the skull that sits just behind the ear. We have two of these muscles, one...

19. February 2021

Have you ever wondered why ear infections are so common in little ones? Some kids have so many ear infections, that they seem to be taking antibiotics regularly and some are even candidates for ear tube surgery. I don’t know about you, but that does not seem like much fun to me. Kids should be running, jumping, playing, and enjoying life! Not constantly run down with a sore ear and everything that comes with it! But there is a very specific reason as to why littles are more prone to ear...

05. July 2017

The ability of a baby to properly latch and feed is a complex suck-swallow-breathe sequence. This requires the function of 6 cranial nerves, 6 cervical nerves and a few thoracic nerves in order to coordinate as many as 31 muscles in the lips, cheeks, tongue, jaw, chin, soft palate etc. All of this soft tissue means that there can be involvement of many structures in problems of latch or abnormal suck. Let,s look at some of the muscles involved in moving the tongue. The three main muscles of the...

25. July 2016

We always learn how much our mother was right as we get older. Do you remember your mother constantly saying “stand up straight! Don’t slouch!”, it turns out she was right all along. Your spinal structure is one of the most important things that can affect your health. The development of your posture is directly related to the development of your spine. The proper development of your spine results in a group of small bones called vertebrae that are designed to fit together to form an...